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#AuthorAugust26 | Day 9: Writing Struggles
Shyness. I have been very poor at sharing my work and so working on that these past six months has been a learning curve for assessing that hurdle. I sometimes lack the ability to perceive the context of others, in… Continue reading
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#AuthorAugust26 | Day 7: Frustrating Misconceptions
That “making it big” is the entire and only point of writing. People like to judge quickly based on books published or competitions won; they focus on money made, forgetting that most of us write not because we’re chasing fame… Continue reading
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#AuthorAugust26 | Day 6: Writing Process Across Books
My writing process is a little muddled to begin with, so it’s relatively the same over the course of writing but the order of the process might change. Sometimes the writing pours out way before the outline and sometimes the… Continue reading
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#AuthorAugust26 | Day 5: Move Comp
Mash up between these two, but the personalities in Hunt for the Wilderpeople are a bit reversed … and I can’t promise Rini & Butler will be as funny (ᵕ—ᴗ—) Continue reading
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#AuthorAugust26 | Day 2: Tell Us About Your Book
Rini & Butler is a mild science-fiction novel that asks the question: what happens when an android actually considers the literal meaning of its core laws? He runs away, steals an umbrella and picks up an Australian accent, of course.… Continue reading
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I just bought my first ISBN
I just bought my first ISBN for the release of Rini & Butler in October! I got the same giddiness and excitement that I had when buying my first reader copies of the novel. It’s so exciting! (ㅅ´ ˘ `)… Continue reading
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Creating the Writing Blocks
Based on what I learned from Heart Breathing’s Preptober Video and from looking over the Rough Draft Challenge Workbook, I made simple “worksheets” to guide me through what I call “writing blocks”. Each “block” is a month and each set… Continue reading
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Cycle 26’s Writing Project, Preptober Incoming
This April I will be entering my second Preptober using the writing blocks I developed from Heart Breathings’ Preptober video. Sarra is actually about to start another Rough Draft Challenge (she does them April, July and November). The way I’ve… Continue reading
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It’s Yule Yet Again
Yule has come and the it marks the shortest day of the year! This year, I’m hosting a winter afternoon tea with a bunch of winter health goodies. It’s made my schedule quite packed as there’s a lot of prep… Continue reading
